Simone DeSousa Gallery is pleased to present Root of the Head, an exhibition that will bring together the work of Karen Azoulay, Bianca Beck, and Kylie Lockwood.

Merging iconography of earth-elements and the female form such as the mask, flowers or mud, Azoulay's work is filtered through a layered practice of performative sculpture, photography, and mixed media collage. Beck's allegiance is to guttural impulses, experimentation, and action - painting directly with her hands and mixing media, she creates visually loud sculptures that engage with mortality and the experience of body-hood. Through an intimate relationship to materials, Lockwood's work attempts to reconcile the experience of living in a body with things such as cognitive neuroscience and the history of sculpture.

Galerie Camille is delighted to present “Can We Touch It,” a group exhibition featuring Sarah Brennan, Mitch Fox, Joshua Kochis, and Jenna Rothstein. The exhibition features Detroit-based emerging artists who’s work ranges from found objects to print making. This show focuses on repurposing, expanding and interpreting the ordinary.

: this is not Detroitis a solo exhibition by the Copenhagen-based artist Tal R. The intricate, multipart installation manifests the artist's fantasy of Detroit, acting as a meditation on dream places, identity, and whimsy. Fictitious Characterincludes a selection of the Michael Luch's wall and sculptural works, heavily worked pieces held together by collages of unique gesture.

One day, after I’d grown very tired of eating so many kiwis, I started to eat lots of pears. For awhile I was eating pears every day. I’d put a pear in my Baggu bag printed with bunnies holding donuts on it and walk to my studio. When it is really hot in Los Angeles, I don’t really want to eat anything except fresh fruit. Like I said… for awhile I was eating kiwis, and then I moved onto pears. I have a Bosch pear in my fruit bowl at home right now. The other night at the bar, instead of drinking (which I really wasn’t in the mood to do), I ate an extra ripe and juicy red Bartlett pear and people thought that was especially cool. This pear in particular was so ripe that it dripped all over me and the floor and caused my hands and face to be a little sticky.

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I propose the question: how are pears, vomit, bunny-dogs, mushrooms, stools and fountains related?

SUNDAY, JULY 22, 20183:15 PM – 3:45 PMPLAYGROUND DETROIT2845 GRATIOTIn A Difficult Pair, Victoria Shaheen and George Vidas use materials associated with industrial and commercial applications to probe questions of identity, hierarchy, and material culture. Shaheen uses commodity culture, image saturation and the history of decorative arts and design to create contemporary environments that deconstruct hierarchies, expose absurdity in social systems, and simply make viewers laugh. Vidas also uses humor to convey witty concepts and ideas through his neon work.

Wasserman Projects is pleased to present “Color-aid” an exhibition of painting, photography, and installation that explores the language of color and its influence on our emotional and physical response to the work. Featuring Peter Zimmermann’s candy colored resin paintings, vivid vignettes surrounding Abigail Murray's ceramics, and Ken Aptekar’s compositions with bold layering of text and image.

“REJECTING REALITY” with Detroit Bureau of Sound and architect Aaron Jones will fuse avant-garde music with immersive architectural installations into an apparatus for sensory escape. This escape mission will de-familiarize the familiar through unconventional relationships in music, self, and infrastructure. A diversion for your senses showcasing a spectrum of sound experiments and special guest performer Pamela Z within a fully transformed environment at Red Bull Arts Detroit. A one-night-only, up close and personal glimpse into another dimension.

Red Bull Arts Detroit is an artist residency, visiting curator and writer fellowship, micro-grant program, and experimental, non-commercial exhibition space. Since 2011, the organization has ensured a sustained commitment to the cultivation and advancement of the arts in Detroit and beyond.